Dogma Never Sleeps

"The totalitarian state sets irrefutable dogma and changes them from day to day" - George Orwell

Dogma never sleeps. It simply takes a break and then regroups. Knowledge cannot kill dogma because dogma is seldom ever rational. It can appear to be rational, but this is only true once you step outside the circle of the enlightened. This circle can be found everywhere that people have dogma. Which means, everywhere.

This “Circle of the Enlightened” is comprised of true believers who have willfully suspended disbelief in order to sustain their self-deception. Not unlike movie goers at a Godzilla film, who are well aware that 200 ft. lizards aren’t real. They are certainly cool, though. And, as such, for the duration of the movie, the audience willfully allow the fantasy of giant monsters to have free reign in their imaginations.

A similar phenomena is found in progressive politics, where normally rational people willfully suspend disbelief in order to support things like transgender bathroom rights or socialism. If you think a 200 ft. lizard is silly, look at the history of true socialism over the past 80 years and you’ll see just how willfully ignorant people can be.

Likewise, fundamentalist religion or fundamentalist anything, is usually rife with dogma. It doesn’t matter what you’re talking about; politics, art or music, pull back the veil, and you will find dogma growing like a weed.

Here’s an example; Barrack Obama says that the law can be based on feelings. Now, anybody who is alleged to be a legal scholar knows that feelings are subjective and highly personnel. The law, by comparison, is supposed to be based on objective criteria. For instance, most of us would agree that murder is bad and should be illegal, regardless of what the person committing the murder thinks. Otherwise you might see things like this;

“Oh, I didn’t know that it was wrong to kill my neighbor and take his car? I mean, according to my highly subjective opinion, murder is OK in such cases.

​What cases are those?

The cases that involve me and my feelings.”

​No, that’s just plain stupid. But then, so is Obama’s claim that he can make a law based on what individuals feel about their gender, and then make everyone else obey, or go to jail.

This should be so stunningly obvious that a severely mentally impaired person orbiting the outer reaches of the galaxy should be able to see it. But they don’t. At least, this is true among progressives, who are so overrun with dogma that even the most obvious things are not obvious.

How about taxes? Do higher taxes lead to economic health and well-being? This is where some clever dick looks at tax rates in 1961, during JFK’s presidency, and concludes, “Yes, they do!” Because they economy more or less thrived in those years, and the top tax rates were insanely high, 90% or better. Therefore, high tax rates lead to prosperity. Of course, anyone who wasn’t an imbecile, would recognize the need to look at a whole range of factors. Including the factor that no one, I mean, absolutely no one, ever, paid those tax rates. But, used a huge range of deductibles to avoid anything approximating rates of 90% or even 50%. Also, better than 90% of all jobs come from the private sector. Meaning, that almost all wealth is likewise created by the private sector. Not by the government. So the question of where prosperity actually comes from should be simple enough to answer.

But, to a progressive, facts are subjective. So, who’s to say what truth is?

Bill Clinton said this this very same thing when he was asked, under oath, about having sex with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval office. This led to his impeachment. But, according to Hillary Clinton, it was a vast rightwing conspiracy that was really to blame for her husband’s predicament. Not lying under oath, which he admittedly did. So progressives had an out.

How about Welfare? Does welfare dependency lead to illegitimacy and a whole range of social pathologies like high rates of incarceration, poverty, lower IQ, mental and emotional problems, child abuse, etc.? You bet, it does. But only in those cases where people are on welfare for long periods of time, which is only true in a relatively small number of cases. Most people are on welfare for a few months, maybe a year or so. To a progressive, this means that a big welfare state is good.Here is the stark reality. According to the Obama Justice dept., about 3% of the population commits 51% of all violent crimes, including murder. That population is young, Black, and male. There are other variables at work beside welfare, of course. It is aid to fatherless children—which is what welfare is—that enables illegitimacy to thrive. But only if there is no father living in the home, and no father of record. Welfare, regardless of the good intentions of progressives, creates perverse incentives, leading to perverse outcomes.

To a progressive, however, rampant racism is the preferred answer. Literally, any other answer is politically dis-empowering for the progressive left. And, that is why no other answer is tolerable.

But, if you need an answer in a clinch, there’s always the old standby that republicans love war and corporations, so it all balances out in the end.

This is precisely how dogma works. Meaning, any bad idea can be justified as long as there is another bad idea to make it even out.

I could go on, but won’t. Facts, like a pistol firing blanks, will simply bounce off the cranium of progressives. Why? Because dogma is impervious to evidence. No matter how compelling it may be.